Breaking Away: How Great Leaders Create Innovation that Drives Sustainable Growth--and Why Others Fail

Overview

Table of contents

PART ONE: THE INNOVATION EQUATION; Chapter 1. A Rose by Any Other Name: This is Innovation; Chapter 2. Let There Be Light: Finding Inspiration; Chapter 3. The Sweet Spota: Innovation that Performs; PART TWO: THE LEADERSHIP EQUATION; Chapter 4. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Role of Leadership in Innovation; Chapter 5. The Right Stuff: Leadership Personalities; Chapter 6. One for All and All for One: Creating an Innovation Culture; Chapter 7. The Buck Stops Here: The CEO Factor; PART THREE: THE PAYOFF; Chapter 8. It's a Jungle in Here: Creating an Innovation Environment; Chapter 9. A Company of Ones: The People Component; Chapter 10. Here's the Beef: Engaging the Market; Chapter 11. Are You Ready?: Taking up the Gauntlet

Author comments

Jane Edison Stevenson, is Vice Chairman, Board & CEO Services at Korn/Ferry International, a premier global provider of talent management solutions. She is noted as an industry expert on recruiting leaders of innovation, having recruited many of the first Chief Innovation Officers and CEO's focused on growth through innovation.

Bilal Kaafarani is Senior VP, Global Research and Innovation officer of The Coca-Cola Company. Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Bilal held leadership roles with PepsiCo International, as well as Tropicana, Proctor & Gamble and Kraft. There he developed the fat free technology that resulted in the highly successful “Kraft Free” products. He is holder of several patents for breakthrough technologies in the food sector.